Ok for me not so good. I found it hard to get into.

It's about a woman called Maggie who has bought an old house with the intention of converting it into a B+B then flipping it for a profit. She has no intentions of staying.
The descriptions of the area are awesome and the best thing about this book in my opinion.
If you like romance you should give this a go.

I'm giving it 2.75 stars because it was just a ok read for me. Nothing grabbed at me but the scenery.

This is a sweet little story but I can’t say it is anything particularly special. If you like romance it’s a worthwhile read. My favorite part was the setting, Nantucket is beautifully described here. The romance fell a little flat to me, but I see that other readers really loved it. Your mileage may vary!

I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a great story of a woman who was all business and a woman dealing with pat of things not going her way. It was nice to read a book that had no evil person but two people trying to work things out so they can be together. I definitely recommend this book.

This one was a hard one to get through. I really liked the idea. It's about a flipper, Maggie, who buys an old home on Nantucket to turn it into a B&B and then lives there while she gets the business up and running enough to sell it off. Meanwhile, Ellis is an employee of the Steamship Authority that does the ferries back and forth to Nantucket as well as being a lifer on the island. They meet through Maggie's dog (who totally steals the show, everyone's hearts, and the novel), and from there they embark on a back and forth sort of relationship. Which isn't helped by the fact that both women have secrets, although Maggie's (the fact that she's a flipper) is definitely the bigger of the two.

I wish I'd liked the book more than I did. It was alright, but not amazing. I could never really bring myself to care about either of the characters. And all the characters seemed so defensive about, everything. I also didn't really like a lot of the inner monologue that was happening. Even though technically stuff in the narrative was being 'shown' and not told, because of how much of the inner stuff was put onto the page it still seemed like I was being told everything instead of shown.

I did think that the 'feel' of Nantucket/New England/Massachusetts was very well done. (Yes, woo to 2004 (and 2007 and 2013), and boo to Big Papi being retired. Heh.)

I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books.

Maggie Jordan travels around the country buying properties, fixing them up for the soul purpose of reselling them. It's all about the money she can make to purchase her next project. Ellis Chilton works the ferry taking people from the mainland to her home in Nantucket where the locals like to have the tourist visit but still preserve the characteristics that make their island so special. Ellis is still recovering from the death of her father and the loss of the family business. The property Maggie decides to redo is Ellis’s home that the bank had foreclosed on forcing her to make her home on the boat she still managed to hang onto.Throw in a dog, Retta and Maggie's sister Rachel and CF Frizzell gives us story that starts out somewhat slow but kept me coming back . Very nice read. Looking forward to more books by CF.

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36472580-nantucket-rose" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Nantucket Rose" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1508903626m/36472580.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36472580-nantucket-rose">Nantucket Rose</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7834012.C_F_Frizzell">C.F. Frizzell</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2182626564">3 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I rec'd an ARC from NetGalley/Bold Strokes Books for an honest review. <br />Maggie and Ellis feature in this coastal romance which I found spent too much time on musings. However, descriptions and history were very informative and kept my interest. Sadly, I can only give a 2.5 rating.
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My favourite book by CF Frizzell so far. A beautiful setting where a meeting between a reserved mariner and footloose renovator results in them both being pulled from their normal lives in ways they couldn't predict. A great romance, with a scene stealing chocolate Labrador, who unwittingly keeps pulling the two women together!

ARC received from NetGalley in return fir a fair review.

This is an average story, there’s nothing particularly compelling here, everything plays out as expected and there was little that captured my interest. The characters border on boring, and so does their chemistry. In all honesty the dog was the best character in the book, and she had better chemistry with both leads than they had with each other.

I also had a hard time believing that anyone starting a B&B would have all the free time Maggie tended to have, or that Ellis could live in Nantucket and not know her old house was being turned into a B&B. The house mix-up, and ‘secret’ that were supposed to add drama just distracted me from the story, because I just kept waiting for those particular shoes to drop.

It’s not a bad book, but I can’t say I overly enjoyed it. I just couldn’t engage with the characters, and the plot never drew me in. 2.5 stars, rounded up.

3.5 stars

Maggie Jordan is up to her eyeballs converting an historic Nantucket home into a B&B. Having flipped a number of projects before this one, Maggie has learned to keep the fact from the locals and avoid the resulting frosty response.

Adding the finishing touches and drumming up business is her forte, and Maggie is working to keep the history of the building and the area intact. However, she doesn’t count on the magnetic Ellis Chilton, the reserved islander who pilots the ferry and lives on a large boat in the harbour. Their friendship develops, and Maggie finds herself falling for the enigmatic Ellis, and for Nantucket. Will she be able to sell the B&B? Will she be able to leave?

CF Frizzell wrote “Night Voice”, which I really liked. There are elements of the same writing style in this book too, as Frizzell allows herself to take the time to develop the relationship between the two main characters. I liked both Maggie and Ellis, although Maggie was better drawn as a character. The minor characters were not very well developed, and more could have been done with them to help set the scene for the two main characters.

Unusually in a romance, the characters didn’t seem to be fighting or misunderstanding each other all the time. There was a genuine care for each other that came through clearly. Although it probably meant that there was less tension in the middle of the book, it was a blessed relief to have two characters who genuinely liked and were supportive of one another.

I liked the basic setup of the story, although I will admit, I had a chapter or two of wondering if I’d read the book before. That’s probably my memory rather than Frizzell’s writing though. There were lovely descriptions of the locations, Maggie’s B&B and Ellis’s boat, which gave the book some of the charming flavour that suited the setting. Frizzell managed to keep enough in to give us a sense of place without it tipping over into too much detail.

However, I did find the pacing a little slow in the mid-section of the book, and a bit rushed at the end. The pacing of the love story also seemed to be a bit erratic, which made the ending a little bit of a stretch for me. The ending was perhaps the least satisfying part of the book.

I did like the book, and can see genuine talent in Frizzell’s writing. I look forward to reading more from her in the future.

Advanced reading copy provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

Informative read about the sea, weather, boats, older homes and the charm of a small town. I enjoyed the descriptions and the historical information more than I enjoyed the story. Wonderful guide if you plan to visit Nantucket. I thought Maggie Jordan's dog was more interesting than Maggie. Ellis Chilton was more interesting than Maggie. The internal struggle of both women was just not interesting to me. I got bored with the am I in or am I out.

An okay read, but not a story that really grabbed me. I have read one of Fizzell’s other books Night Voice, and liked it more than I expected. I was hoping that this book would be the same, but I never really connected with it.

The story is about Maggie who flips businesses. She bought a historic home in Nantucket to turn into a B&B she could sell to a larger cooperation. The more time Maggie spends in Nantucket, the more she likes living here. When she meets Captain Ellis, feelings quickly develop. Will Maggie follow the money or her heart?

I really struggled to like and connect with both main characters. I am not quite sure what it was, but I found myself not caring for either of them. I’m such a character driven reader. I can forgive plot problems and other issues if I love the characters, so it’s hard to enjoy a book when I don’t. I will say Ellis finally grew on me about 50% into the book. Her character changed when she was with Maggie and I finally found something I liked. I never really warmed up to Maggie, so all I can really say is she was okay. There is actually one other main character and it’s a dog. I’m not kidding; the dog had almost as much page time as the other two mains.

I did really like the setting of Nantucket. The feel of the island and all the water, the people, I thought it was all well described. I think that’s the part of the book that worked the most for me.

The rest of the book I just found a bit too predictable. The relationship is partly based on a lie, and you are just reading the story waiting for the climax to happen. Not enough was going on in the story so all I could think about was the lie. I found I had to stop myself from wanting to skim, and I am not a skimmer. I just needed more in the story to really keep my attention.

The romance itself was okay. There is some chemistry I just wished I liked the characters more so I would enjoy it more. I started this book last night, and I actually fell asleep in the middle of a sex scene. I woke myself up, re-read part of the page, and promptly fell right back asleep. Now I was really tiered, so this is not a total knock on Fizzell’s writing, it’s just that I don’t ever remember falling asleep during a sex scene before. The point is I really was not as engaged in the book as I would have liked to have been.

I feel like I may have made this book sound worse than it was. It is not a bad book by any means. I’m giving it 3 stars. It just wasn’t any better than okay for me. Romance fans that like destination romances might enjoy this book. I don’t think it will be for everyone, but I know some will enjoy it. I’m hopefully that Fizzell’s next book will be more my speed.

An ARC was given to me by BSB, for a honest review.

A less than successful novel from Ms. Frizzell, who has previously created quirky and intriguing characters. Here the plot was weakened by a readily foreseeable source of angst: miscommunication about the future between the two protagonists, insufficient attraction between either women and a tendency toward hyper internal reflection by the characters which pervaded more than actual dialogue. While I completed the whole, it was surprisingly generic and left me wanting more.

Have you ever been hungry, not known what you wanted to eat, so grabbed something at random?

Well that's how I came about selecting this book. And, much like when I do that with food, the content of this story left me feeling the same. It filled a gap but didn't sate my appetite. I wanted something meaty to sink my teeth into and that didn't happen.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the story, other than the issue other reviewers have mentioned, but there's nothing compelling about it either. Besides, Retta, the dog.

It wasn't until I got to the end of this story, I realized this isn't the first book I've read by this author. In 2014, I read Stick McLaughlin: The Prohibition Years by Friz and also found that rather average, despite it winning awards, which brings me to the conclusion that I am not the target audience for this author.

I'm but one reader and I urge potential readers to check out this story for themselves and draw their own conclusion.

Copy provided by the publisher, via NetGalley.

I had a little difficulty in getting into history at the beginning. Neither Maggie nor Ellis interested me enough, neither separately nor together. In addition, the book becomes a bit dense in the descriptions. And then, there are more internal dialogues than real ones between the two protagonists. In the end, the story is a bit too predictable and not really interesting. I'm sorry, but I have not enjoyed entirely this book.

I received an ARC from Netgalley and BSB

The book and the characters were good but the whole story was just too predictable. There was a lot of internal monologue- almost more than normal dialogue and it took over some of the storyline. I liked the characters but had no surprises in it.

Ok story although there's not much in the way of plot. It's basically all given away in the blurb. I did find myself wondering pretty much right from the start how Ellis was going to find out and how big the misunderstanding/miscommunication was going to be on the way to the happily ever after.

The total deal breaker though is the writing. The amount of inner monologue here is ludicrous. I wonder how much book would be left over if you deleted all italics sections. The further along I got the more annoyed I was. What enraged me most is that I didn't feel this information provided in this way added anything of value. This device always annoys me, often I think it's lazy writing: I need to include this information but I don't know how. Oh, right! I'll have the character think it! But here the thoughts were mostly inane and phrased in ways they, thank goodness, didn't use in dialogue. It was most jarring actually in sections of dialogue, where practically after each spoken sentence inner monologue was added. This really disrupted the reading experience and made me feel like my head was jerked around.

Other than this I didn't mind the writing, which made the issue stand out even more.

One of those books that leave me baffled in regard to why no one raised these issues during the publishing process.